About the job
This job increases the effectiveness of software engineers, sets the technology roadmap, adapts roles to achieve technical goals, provides advice to senior executives, handles ambiguous situations, uses exploratory research for decisions, identifies improvement opportunities, mentors others, and enhances organizational performance.
Responsibilities
Increases results & effectiveness of all software engineers in a large domain
Sets the technology roadmap for a domain
Adapts their role to the need, selecting the most effective means of realizing their technical goals
Provides advice and counsel to senior executives within PayPal, influencing the development of multi-year business strategies
Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results
Handles ambiguous and unfamiliar situations and uses creativity to deliver decisive resolutions
Uses discovery & exploratory research, not being limited to technical domains, to make successful decisions
Identifies themes & trends that span projects and teams, and finds broadly impactful opportunities for improvement
Uses professional savvy to determine when industry-standard solutions can be adopted, versus when a problem space warrants a novel solution ("build/buy")
Mentor others as a means of propagating technical influence, and to enhance the performance of their organization
Qualifications
Minimum
10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred
10+ years in software/ML engineering, with deep expertise in LLM-based agent systems
Production experience building agentic platforms — multi-agent orchestration, tool-use frameworks, MCP/ACP protocols
Strong systems design skills — you've built platforms that handle millions of requests with high reliability
Experience with payment APIs, authentication flows , or financial transaction systems
Familiarity with the emerging agent protocol landscape and LLM tool-use patterns at scale
Published work, patents, or open-source contributions in agentic AI is a plus